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This chapter outlines outdoor wireless urban network provision. It combines technological information transfer and subsequent social implications into a spatial setting. Wireless or mobile technologies have been a central development area of data transfer. Technology is also a mediator of data content as signified by the receiver. These questions are tied to megaengineering through their importance to individual communications as well as organizational transactions. I analyze urban outdoor networks according to a triad that includes dimensions of technology, information distribution, economy and social life. Empirical section exemplifies wireless service provision in three Finnish cities: Turku, Oulu, and Helsinki. Provision solutions include local arrangements such as public-private partnerships, user identification and access extension within population, and information security together with broader questions of globalization and information production and distribution.
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Inkinen, T. (2011). The Internet in Three Finnish Cities: Accessing Global Networks. In: Brunn, S. (eds) Engineering Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4_9
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